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NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF 

 GEOMETRIDAE 



HEMITHEINAE 



Racheospila glaucomarginaria sp. nov. 



$ antennae shortly pectinate; $ palpi moderately short, upturned, red- 

 dish laterally, ochreous inwardly and basally, 9 palpi considerably longer; 

 front reddish ; white interantennal fillet bordered posteriorly with reddish ; 

 thorax, pectus and abdomen green, latter with large ochreous spots on basal, 

 third and fourth segments bordered with purplish-red; wings green, costa of 

 primaries narrowly white; faint, rounded and slightly waved white antemedian 

 line on primaries ; a rather rigidly upright white postmedian line ; no discal 

 mark. Secondaries with curved antemedian line rather near base of wing, dis- 

 tinct white discal dash and slightly crenulate postmedian line bent rather abruptly 

 at vein 3 ; fringes on both wings distinctly ochreous, shaded slightly at apex of 

 primaries with pinkish. Beneath pale green, costa at base slightly tinged with 

 ruddy ; markings of upper side faintly visible ; fringes as above. Expanse 30 mm. 



Habitat: $, Laguna Beach, Calif.; 9. Palo Alto, Calif. (May) 

 (Barnes). 1 $, 1 9. Coll. Barnes. 



We have had the worn 9 in the collection for a long time ; the 

 recent receipt of a $ in better condition in some material which we 

 received from Dr. L. O. Howard for identification tempts us to describe 

 the species as we can find no name which would fit it. The yellowish 

 fringes and large spots on abdomen are quite distinctive; the white 

 discal streak on secondaries seems to separate the species from others 

 found in this locality. 



LARENTIINAE 



Stamnodes topazata apicata var. nov. (PI. XX, Fig. 6). 



Typical topazata, (PI. XX, Fig. 5) described from Utah (probably 

 Silver Lake) is an inhabitant of the Rocky Mountain region; a race 

 from Hymers, Ont. which we figured as topazata in our Contributions 

 Vol. 1 (4) PI. 25, Fig. 12 appears to differ constantly in the much 

 greater breadth of the black border of primaries at the apex of wing. 

 There is generally in both forms a faint orange hair line on this black 

 area at costa and the distance from this line to the inner margin of 

 apical black space is in typical topazata about 1 mm. whereas in our 

 Hymers specimens it is fully 2 mm. Typical topazata further shows 

 a tendency for the costal dark spots to be continued across the wings 



